I’m almost sorry to ask this, but does anyone have experience with Firefox on Linux taking a long time to open? I’m running Pop!_OS on a fairly modern machine. All other programs open pretty quickly, but Firefox seems to drag its feet on startup. Once it’s open it’s great, no problems with speed.
I have tried disabling extensions (ublock origin, sponsorblock, decentraleyes, i still don’t care about cookies) and I have tried setting my default profile as one without any custom user.js (I have a profile with Arkenfox and one with Betterfox’s user.js). Nothing I have done so far has seemed to make any difference, but Help->Troubleshoot Mode allows Firefox to open quickly, so there must be something that I can disable that is causing the issue… Any ideas? Thanks.
Edit: Seems like swapping to the flatpak version made things much faster. The Pop!_OS .deb version must be snap like you all said :) Thanks everyone!
Just checked, I’m using the deb package.
Have tried the flatpak? Also try creating a new profile.
What is your disk performance?
Flatpak is much better, thank you for the suggestion.
That’s strange
My guess it that there is something in your profile. However, Flatpak is more secure anyway so you might as well stick to it.
If you’re on Ubuntu or one of its derivatives (Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu derivative), it’s probably a snap. I don’t know about Pop!_OS specifically, but I know Ubuntu ships snaps through debs.